Whether to regulate the accountancy profession is not at issue – the question is how? External regulation or self-regulation? Each has its advan...
View articleProud prize winners at last week’s Accountancy Age annual awards for excellence staged at the London Hilton Hotel. From left: Denis Waxman, mana...
View articleSelf-assessment has spurred the tax software industry into action and, if the number of new products on show last week at the Accountants and Financia...
View articleEnterprise applications vendor SAP UK has launched SAP Focus, an implementation methodology that will make its R/3 software a more viable proposition ...
View articleA high-flying City executive recently made history after claiming compensation for a nervous breakdown brought on by information overload. There can b...
View articleThe row between CIMA and the rest of the working party rocked theprofession last week. Rod Hill and Chris Swinson make their points. Read More...
View articleThe Government attempted to head off private sector criticism of the private finance initiative this week with a set of measures designed to cut red t...
View articleThe English ICA is braced for trouble over proposals to halve the number of regulatory and oversight visits it makes to licensed insolvency practition...
View articleThe impact of Government measures to combat late payment of company bills could take two more years to assess, the Scots ICA has claimed. The DTI intr...
View articleEver wondered what users really think of their accounts system? Every so often a new report comes out and blows a few vendors out of the water. Ovum&#...
View articleA head of steam was gathering this week behind the candidacy of Robert Smith (right), Scots ICA president, to takeover as head of Deutsche Morgan Gren...
View articleA small practitioner aims to scupper Customs & Excise’s three-year rule on VAT repayment claims through a judicial review. Pankaj Bakshi, s...
View articleUK companies do not spend enough time selecting non-executive directors and, as a result, their boards do not work properly, a new book on corporate g...
View articleA district auditor is investigating a ‘serious misjudgment’ by Welwyn Hatfield Council which resulted in a #50m damages award to a propert...
View articleA chartered accountant jailed for stealing #60,000 from his employer has been thrown out of the English ICA. Cyril Clifford, from Tonbridge, Kent, was...
View articleThe Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists launched a challenge to Customs & Excise’s three-year rule on VAT repayment claims las...
View articleAccountancy firms are lagging behind rival professional advisers in the race for work on the Government’s private finance initiative with lawyer...
View articlePlanned simplifications of the Companies Act designed to help small businesses could result in highly misleading company accounts, the Scots ICA has w...
View articleOnce the political decision to proceed with privatising the nuclearindustry had been taken, it fell on accountants to prepare a business planand ensur...
View articleAccounting Standards Board proposals published this week would close the loophole that allows companies to avoid depreciating properties. But it has m...
View articleAndrew Sawers examines the threat of a further attack on dividendtaxation. Read More...
View articleThe Accounting Standards Board has been largely successful in reducing the number of companies excluding subsidiaries from the consolidated accounts. ...
View articleDissident ACCA member Prem Sikka has been subjected to a vicious hate campaign in the run-up to an extraordinary general meeting in two weeks’ t...
View articleGovernment reforms in the health service have been controversial. Butfor accountants the reforms have been little short of revolutionary andthe underl...
View articleThe Law Commission has proposed the creation of a new criminal offence to fight mortgage and other fraud after a House of Lords decision last July thr...
View articleA central plank of Labour’s economic policy is doomed to failure if the party wins the next election, accountants have warned. Labour’s pl...
View articleFamily-run businesses that don’t admit outside shareholders underperform those that do, according to a survey by Coopers & Lybrand. The fir...
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